{"id":12981,"date":"2012-05-27T21:30:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T04:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/05\/27\/queiroz-laments-ineffectiveness-against-albania\/"},"modified":"2012-05-27T21:30:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T04:30:03","slug":"queiroz-laments-ineffectiveness-against-albania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2012\/05\/27\/queiroz-laments-ineffectiveness-against-albania\/","title":{"rendered":"Queiroz laments ineffectiveness against Albania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; float: right;\" alt=\"queiroz-press1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/queiroz-press1.jpg\" height=\"230\" width=\"330\" \/>PFDC &#8211; ISTANBUL, <strong>Iran coach Carlos Queiroz rued the many missed scoring opportunities after the 0-1 friendly match defeat to Albania on Sunday evening, however, still expressed happiness about Team Melli&#8217;s performance.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had five good scoring opportunities, three of them were one on one situations with the keeper, but unfortunately we couldn&#8217;t score&#8221;, the Portugese told reporters after the match. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Albania only had two chances in the whole match, so it was an unnecessary loss for us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a good game, which we will have to analyze in regards to our strengths and weaknesses&#8221;, Queiroz was quoted by Iranian news agency ISNA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was especially satisfied with the performance of our defenders, but also that we were able to pressurize to opponent for the full 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We faced a good team with many European legionnaires and we managed to dominate them throughout the game, however, due to the unpredictability of football they somehow won.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former Real Madrid and Portugal boss also explained why some regular starters &#8211; Mehdi Rahmati, Hadi Aghily, Khosro Heydari, Mehrdad Pouladi, Ali Karimi and Gholamreza Rezaei &#8211; found themselves on the bench initially and also explained why Omid Nazari of \u00c4ngelholms FF didn&#8217;t debut for Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t use some of the usual starters in order rest them, especially those who were engaged in Asian Champions League recently.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to field Omid Nazari but unfortunately FIFA didn&#8217;t deliver his player pass yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, Queiroz also explained his decision fielding Alireza Haghighi of Rubin Kazan as starting goalkeeper today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the past matches, Shahab Gordan, Mohsen Forouzan and Mehdi Rahmati played, so this time Haghighi got his chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The players will have Monday off before training will be resumed on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Iran will continue their training camp until June 1, before travelling to Tashkent for the World Cup qualifier against Uzbekistan on June 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDC &#8211; ISTANBUL, Iran coach Carlos Queiroz rued the many missed scoring opportunities after the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":4667,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}